PATHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Saltatory conduction describes the way an electrical impulse skips from node to node down the full length of an axon, speeding the arrival of the impulse at the nerve terminal in comparison with the slower continuous progression of depolarization spreading down an unmyelinated axon.

Detailed explanation-2: -In neuroscience, saltatory conduction (from Latin saltus ‘leap, jump’) is the propagation of action potentials along myelinated axons from one node of Ranvier to the next node, increasing the conduction velocity of action potentials.

Detailed explanation-3: -Simply put the impulse jumps from one node to the other node, hence called Saltatory Conduction. Even though strictly speaking, the signal doesn’t jump from one node to another, there is some moderately complex stuff going on in the background, during this type of conduction.

Detailed explanation-4: -The propagation of electrical impulses along axons is highly accelerated by the myelin sheath and produces saltating or “jumping” action potentials across internodes, from one node of Ranvier to the next.